Participants: Cheri Peters (Host), Craig DeMartino
Series Code: CLR
Program Code: CLR00069C
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00:14 Welcome back, you know what is really interesting
00:15 after everything that you said. 00:17 I bet a lot of people just look 00:19 at your foot and say oh man you lost your leg. 00:21 Right! But you have got rods in your back, 00:23 you can't feel half of your body, 00:25 and all that stuff and so I want you to close out 00:28 the program, but I want you to talk to somebody 00:30 that is dealing with all of that. 00:32 All that junk, how do you get up every day? 00:34 Why do you get up every day? 00:35 Why do you fight through this stuff? 00:37 Take it! 00:40 To me the biggest thing is that you go into the situations 00:43 that you think never are going to happen to you. 00:45 I never thought that I would fall off a cliff. 00:47 I never thought that I would have to cut my leg off. 00:48 I never thought any of this would happen to me. 00:50 But you realize when you are in it, that it is a process 00:54 and it's like seasonal changes. 00:56 Just like a really cold winter and you know without fail 00:59 at the end of that winter spring is going to come around 01:02 and you are going to be able to move out of it just like 01:05 spring moves out of winter. 01:07 You see that in your growth, you see that forward movement. 01:10 For me I saw that I was still me. 01:14 I still wanted to go do all the things that I did before. 01:17 The accident did not take my identity away, 01:19 I was still Craig, a Craig that was very different, 01:22 and obviously pieced and parted out. 01:25 I was still me and I wanted to go forward and what 01:28 I realized was all of a sudden God was showing me 01:31 the way through that. 01:32 Not to say that there weren't days that I can't get up. 01:35 There are days literally now, six years later, 01:37 where I am in my wheelchair all day. 01:39 That's what I do, I work on my computer and that is it 01:42 because I feel terrible. 01:45 I'm all achy, I can't move around. 01:47 But I also know that that is one day. 01:49 So in the scheme of my life, in all the events in my life 01:52 that is just one day. Exactly! 01:54 It's going to be over the next day, 01:56 it's going to be a better day. 01:57 So even if I go through periods of time that are really 02:00 dark, and really tiring, and really hard, 02:02 I know that they are just a time, 02:03 they are not the rest of my life. 02:05 This may be a little cheesy, but talking about being over, 02:09 it's nice having you on the program. 02:11 Thank you so much, thank you so much. 02:13 A had to hand you that and I just have to say for anybody 02:17 who is dealing with something. 02:18 I like what you are saying is that some things are transient. 02:20 You are going to have good days and bad days, 02:22 but recovery means getting back up again and I am 02:25 the same person. 02:26 I don't care what is hitting you, you can get through 02:30 without changing who you are. |
Revised 2014-12-17